HCC is the flagship Conference of TC9. A short summary of the eight
previous conferences and the list of their Proceedings can be found
on the TC9 website at: http://www.ifiptc9.org/

HCC9 is divided into 4 main tracks:
1. Ethics and ICT Governance
2. Virtual Technologies and Social Shaping
3. Surveillance and Privacy
4. ICT and Sustainable Development
Each of them is presented with their possible topics to be developed:
Track 1: Ethics and ICT Governance

Governance is an old word that goes back to Plato. The concept
disappeared for a while, and was replaced by ideas like government,
and government policy. Governance has now returned to the scene.
Today, it focuses on issues like participative democracy and
transparency. [White Paper, 2001]
The state is no longer a unique partner in regulating systems. Other
actors take part at the local, regional, national, and international
levels. New means of regulating scientific, technical, and other
subsystems, and new ways of communicating, are possible among a
variety of actors and subsystems.
Internet governance has been a highly debated issue throughout the
early part of the first decade of the twenty-first century,
particularly at the World Summit on Information Systems (WSIS), held
in Geneva in 2003 and in Tunis 2005. The proposal of the Working
Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) was adopted in Tunis. It put
forward a multistakeholder approach to Internet governance. [WGIG,
2005] Stakeholder engagement has since become increasingly strong.
These debates raised other questions, particularly with regard to
the role of business as a stakeholder. If the word “government”
seems familiar, “civil society” and the “private sector” are perhaps
less well defined. “Civil society” can be defined rather simply in
the spirit of Habermas, the philosopher. Or, it may be subject to
more extensive definitions that can open up discussions on precisely
which kinds of organisations should be among the participants in
civil society, and the extent to which business, business
associations, and business systems are or should be involved.
[Weerts, 2004; Civil Society Centre - LSE, 2007]
Everyone knows that the private sector indicates primarily the
business sector. Indeed, the business sector is often represented in
official circles that make decisions about the Internet. Examples
include the National and International Chamber of Commerce, the
Davos Economic Forum, and the GBDe (Global Business dialogue on
Electronic commerce, http://www.gbd-e.org/).
Ethics, and particularly the “Ethics of Computing”, are certainly
fields worth deepening. IFIP’s SIG9.2.2 has been working in this
domain for almost 20 years. The group has produced various books and
monographs on the ethics of computing. Yet it recognises that
current literature and guidelines could be enhanced and expanded.
The main goal of the HCC9 track on Ethics and ICT Governance is to
offer a forum to make this new field of the ethics of computing, and
its research and practice. The track will include papers on these
and other subjects:

Following on the recent (April 2009) International Working
Conference of IFIP 9.5 Working Group on Virtuality and Society:
"Images of Virtuality" at Athens University of Economics and
Business, Greece, this conference is part of the TC9-HCC9) of the
IFIP World Computer Congress, in Brisbane, Australia, September 2010 http://www.wcc2010.org/ .
This track will focus on the feedback loops between virtual
technologies and the social groups who use them, how each shape the
other and are in turn shaped by them.
Social shaping, the sociology of technology, science studies and
other approaches of cultural studies to the phenomenon of the
information society, driven by such classics as those of Bijker and
Law and Mackenzie and Wajcman from the 1990s, are arguably now ready
for a fresh look, in the context of virtual environments and global
social networking and gaming communities. The intervening years have
additionally seen an explosion of digital and media arts
interpretations, and explorations of the impact of virtual
technologies upon society, and the social use of such technologies
upon their design, and the entrepreneurial trajectories of their
appearance in the global market.
Virtual technologies, crucially, have moved very decisively from the
workplace – whether corporate or home office - and into the domestic
sphere, into our living rooms, playrooms, our kitchens, and our
bedrooms. Here the relationship between virtual technologies and
society, and the mutual shaping processes each undergo, are ripe for
fresh study, insight, and exploration.
The Virtuality and Society Working Group sub-track of the Human
Choice and Computers track of the World Computer Congress therefore
invites research and work-in-progress papers that address the
choices faced by an information society permeated by ubiquitous
virtual technologies.

Relevant topics and themes include, but are not limited to:

- Discussing issues of responsive and iterative user-centred design,
usability, accessibility, and the ‘permanent beta’ of virtual systems
- Discussing the impact of virtual technologies within the domestic
sphere and the changes to such technologies developed out of use-cases
- Exploring new (e-, or v-) research methodologies and techniques on
inquiring into social action in the context of virtuality
- Identifying challenging social, ethical, and political issues of
socialization in virtuality
- Discussing the role of electronic and digital arts and media in
the shaping of virtual technologies and their uses
- Discussing the role of digital gaming and massive multiplayer role-
playing games in the shaping of virtual technologies and their uses
- Discussing virtual spaces and the role of place in virtual
technologies, and how the domestic as well as the work and civic
spaces of the information society are shaped by, and in turn shape
such technologies
- Identifying opportunities and challenges for education,
governance, and entrepreneurship in virtual worlds
- Discussing emerging issues of e-policy and e-quality of life
specifically implicated by virtual technologies
- Exploring social histories and philosophies that deepen our
understanding of term virtuality, and of the relationship between
virtual technologies and society and the mutual shaping processes
between them.

Track 3: Surveillance and Privacy

New technical and legal developments pose greater and greater
privacy dilemmas. Governments have in the recent years increasingly
established and legalised surveillance schemes in form of data
retention, communication interception or CCTVs for the reason of
fighting terrorism or serious crimes. Surveillance Monitoring of
individuals is also a threat in the private sector: Private
organisations are for instance increasingly using profiling and data
mining techniques for targeted marketing, analysing customer buying
predictions or social sorting. Work place monitoring practices allow
surveillance of employees. Emerging pervasive computing
technologies, where individuals are usually unaware of a constant
data collection and processing in their surroundings, will even
heighten the problem that individuals are effectively losing control
over their personal spheres. At a global scale, Google Earth and
other corporate virtual globes may have dramatic consequences for
the tracking and sorting of individuals. With CCTV, the controlling
power of surveillance is in few hands. With live, high resolution
imagery feeds from space in the near future, massive surveillance
may soon be available to everybody, a development whose consequences
we do not yet grasp. New means of surveillance are also enabled by
social networks, in which individuals are publishing many intimate
personal details about themselves and others. Such social networks
are today already frequently analysed by employers, marketing
industry, law enforcement or social engineering.

The aim of this conference track is to discuss and analyse such
privacy risks of surveillance for humans and society as well as
countermeasures for protecting the individuals’ rights to
informational self-determination from multi-disciplinary perspectives.

We are therefore especially inviting the submissions of papers
addressing privacy aspects in relation to topics such as (but not
limited to):

Information and Communication Technologies are perceived both as
enablers of technological and societal change towards sustainable
development and as drivers of increasing energy and materials
consumption, thus leading us away from the goal of sustainable
development.
This conference will therefore include a track of 20 contributions
on the relationship between ICT and Sustainable Development,
entitled "Sustain IT", with the aim of reconciling future
Information and Communication Technologies with sustainable
development (SD).
In order to cover the full range of the complex relationship between
ICT and SD and to stimulate an interdisciplinary discourse on “ICT
for SD”, we invite herewith researchers working on various aspects
of this issue to contribute to this WCC10 track. We will break down
the issue into the following three topics.

ICT hardware and SD

- What are the qualities and quantities of the material and energy
flows caused by the life cycle of ICT hardware and how can we assess
their relevance for SD?
- What are the environmental and social implications of electronic
waste (e-waste) tracks rising in industrialized countries and
emerging economies?
- What are the environmental and social implications of a growing
demand for scarce chemical elements as they are increasingly used in
ICT production?
- What are sound methodologies to assess the energy demand of ICT
infrastructures and services?
- What innovations are necessary to reduce the life-cycle wide
material and energy demand of ICT services, e.g. in the field of
"Green IT"?

ICT applications and SD

- What are the potentials to apply ICT for energy efficiency in
production and consumption, and what are the conditions for
realizing these potentials?
- What are the potentials to apply ICT for materials efficiency or
resource productivity, and what are the conditions for realizing
these potentials?
- What ICT applications have the potential to contribute to the
reduction of greenhouse gas emissions or to the adaption to climate
change?
- Which methodology can be used to assess optimization, substitution
and induction effects of ICT with regard to resource-intensive
processes?
- How can we link organizational, regional, national and global
perspectives in using ICT to support SD?
- What is the relationship between “ICT for development” and “ICT
for sustainable development”?

ICT-enabled structural change towards SD

- What is the role of ICT in sustainable production and consumption,
resource productivity or economic dematerialization (decoupling
total material consumption from GDP)?
- How can we better understand rebound effects of ICT-induced
efficiency gains and under what conditions can they be avoided?
- What is the relationship between conceptions of the “the
information society” and SD?
- Is ICT going to bring about a “third industrial revolution”, and
how is this perspective related to SD?
- What economic frameworks and conditions, including trade and tax
regimes, are needed to enable ICT-supported structural change
towards SD?
- What is the relationship between ICT, GDP growth and measures of
progress beyond GDP (human development indicator, indicators for
wellbeing, quality of life or happiness)?
- What are the most relevant research questions in sustainability
science regarding the role of ICT?

Papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been
published or are simultaneously submitted to a journal or another
conference with proceedings. Papers must be written in English; they
should be at most 10-12 pages in total, including bibliography and
well-marked appendices. Papers should be intelligible without
appendices, if any.

Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published in
the IFIP Series by Springer. Submitted and accepted papers must
follow the publisher’s guidelines for the IFIP Series (www.springer.com/series/6102
), author templates, and manuscript preparation in Word). At least
one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference
and present the paper.

All papers must be submitted in electronic form (Word documents) to
Jacques Berleur and Magda Hercheui (for both emails below
necessarily, not only one email) and the track chairs by the
deadline indicated below. Papers submitted after this deadline will
be discarded without review. Make clear the track you are submitting
your paper to avoid delays of your paper (inform the track on the
email subject).

Important dates
Intention to submit: By return of mail (optional)
Submission of papers: January 31, 2010
Notification to authors: April 20, 2010
Camera-ready copies: May 15, 2010

Intention to submit and submission must be sent to the two HCC9 IPC
Chairs, and according to your track choice to the track chairs: